Officers & Directors

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Senior Executive Management

Richard M. Marotta

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Marotta was appointed to the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank in November 2018. Prior to these appointments, Mr. Marotta served as Senior Executive Vice President of the Company and President of the Bank from 2015. Mr. Marotta joined the Company in 2010 as Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer and has held additional positions including Chief Credit Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. He is responsible for compliance, commercial banking, specialty lending, loan workout and oversees Berkshire Bank’s Foundation. Mr. Marotta was previously Executive Vice President and Group Head, Asset Recovery at KeyBank.

Sean A. Gray

Senior Executive Vice President and President – Berkshire Bank

Mr. Gray was appointed to the role of Senior Executive Vice President of the Company and President of the Bank in November 2018. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Gray was Senior Executive Vice President of the Company and Chief Operating Officer of the Bank from 2015. Mr. Gray joined the Company in 2007 as First Vice President, Retail Banking and has held various position including, Executive Vice President, Retail Banking and Senior Vice President. Mr. Gray is responsible for the operating teams of the bank, including retail banking, mortgage banking, government banking, cash management, wealth management, insurance, and marketing, as well as Human Resources. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Gray was Vice President and Consumer Market Manager at Bank of America, in Waltham, Massachusetts.

James M. Moses

Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Moses is Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of the Company and the Bank, since joining the Bank in July 2016. He is responsible for the accounting, treasury, tax, and capital markets functions. Mr. Moses previously served at Webster Bank as Senior Vice President and Asset/Liability Manager. Mr. Moses joined Webster Bank in 2011 from M&T Bank where he spent four years in various roles including head mortgage trader, deposit products pricing manager and consumer credit card product manager.

George F. Bacigalupo

SEVP, Commercial Banking

Mr. Bacigalupo was promoted to Senior Executive Vice President, Commercial Banking in September 2015, having previously served as an Executive Vice President since October 2013 and Senior Vice President, Chief Credit Officer since 2011. Mr. Bacigalupo is responsible for commercial banking, including the middle-market, business banking and asset based lending teams in Eastern and Central Massachusetts and Connecticut. Previously, Mr. Bacigalupo was EVP of Specialty Lending at TD Banknorth, where he established the ABL and other middle-market lending groups. Subsequently, at TD Bank, he was the Senior Lender for New England.

Michael D. Carroll

SEVP, Commercial Banking and Specialty Lending

Mr. Carroll is Senior Executive Vice President, Commercial Banking and Specialty Lending of Berkshire Bank, a position he was promoted to 2018. Mr. Carroll has previously held the positions of EVP, Commercial Banking and Specialty Lending, EVP, Chief Risk Officer and SVP, Chief Credit Officer managing the risk and credit departments of the Bank. In his role as SEVP, Commercial Banking and Specialty Lending he is responsible for Firestone Financial (equipment leasing) and 44 Business Capital (SBA Lending) and is the executive leader of the regional commercial teams in Berkshire County, Vermont, Albany, Syracuse, and the Mid-Atlantic region. He joined the company in 2009 as SVP, New York Regional Commercial Leader. Previously, Mr. Carroll was Senior Vice President, Middle Market banking at KeyBank.

Tami M. Gunsch

SEVP & Director of Relationship Banking

Ms. Gunsch is Senior Executive Vice President & Director of Relationship Banking, she also serves as President of First Choice Loan Servicing, a subsidiary of Berkshire Bank. In this role, Ms. Gunsch is responsible for all aspects of the retail banking consumer experience, including branch operations, consumer lending, private banking, investment services, call center, electronic/mobile banking and MyBanker team, as well as the deployment of the Bank's relationship banking strategy across all lines of business. Ms. Gunsch has previously held the positions of EVP, Retail Banking and Senior Vice President. Ms. Gunsch joined Berkshire from Citizens Bank in 2009 as First VP of Retail Banking.

Linda A. Johnston

SEVP, Human Resources

Ms. Johnston is Senior Executive Vice President of Human Resources for Berkshire Bank. Ms. Johnston is responsible for overseeing and directing the Company’s human resources functions including compensation and benefits, performance and talent management, training, recruitment, development, executive compensation, and initiatives and practices that support the Company’s strategic direction.
Ms. Johnston also serves as a key advisor to the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors and has been part of the Company for more than 27 years.

Gregory D. Lindenmuth

SEVP, Chief Risk Officer

Mr. Lindenmuth is Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer of the Bank, a position he was promoted to in October 2018. Mr. Lindenmuth is responsible for enterprise risk management as well as loan review, information security and strategic services. Mr. Lindenmuth joined Berkshire in 2016 from the FDIC where he was employed for 24 years and held multiple positions including Senior Risk Examiner for the Division of Risk Management Supervision and Acting Regional Manager for the Division of Insurance and Research. With the FDIC, Mr. Lindenmuth was also a Capital Markets, Mortgage Banking and Fraud Specialist.

Georgia Melas

SEVP, Chief Credit Officer

Ms. Melas is Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Credit Officer of the Bank, a position she was promoted to in October 2018. Ms. Melas is responsible for managing the aggregate risk in the Bank’s loan portfolio. She oversees the Bank’s commercial and consumer credit and is responsible for attainment of lending objectives and the overall direction and operations of the credit department. Ms. Melas joined Berkshire as Senior Vice President, Chief Credit Officer in 2015 from Key Bank where she held multiple positions including Senior Credit Officer, Commercial Banking.

Allison P. O’Rourke

SEVP, Chief Administrative Officer

Ms. O'Rourke is Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer of the Bank, a position she was promoted to in October 2018. In this role, Ms. O'Rourke is responsible for information technology and project management as well as leading corporate strategy and innovation. Ms. O'Rourke previously held the positions of EVP, Corporate Sales Director and EVP, Finance and Investor Relations. She joined the Bank as Vice President, Investor Relations Officer in 2013 from NYSE Euronext and previously worked in securities brokerage with Goldman Sachs.

Wm. Gordon Prescott

SEVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Mr. Prescott is Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Bank, a position he was promoted to in October 2018. Mr. Prescott joined Berkshire in 2008 as VP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Mr. Prescott has 30 plus years of experience in the legal profession, including extensive experience as in-house corporate counsel, and holds a law degree from Boston University School of Law.

Deborah A. Stephenson

SEVP, Compliance and Regulatory

Ms. Stephenson is Senior Executive Vice President, Compliance and Regulatory for Berkshire Bank, a position she was promoted to in 2018. Ms. Stephenson previously held the positions of EVP, Compliance and Regulatory and SVP Chief Compliance Officer. Ms. Stephenson joined Berkshire in 2014 from Country Bank where she served as the Executive Division Leader for Retail Banking, Human Resources, and Training. As SEVP, Compliance and Regulatory Ms. Stephenson is responsible for all aspects of the bank’s regulatory compliance programs.

Board of Directors

William J. Ryan

Chairman

Mr. Ryan is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company. Mr. Ryan previously served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Banknorth from 1985 through 2005 and then subsequently Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of TD Banknorth from 2005 to 2007. He served on the Board of Directors for Anthem, Inc. from 2001 to 2017 and was formerly Chairman of the Board, 2011 to 2015, and director, 2011 to 2016, of Unum Group.

Paul T. Bossidy

Mr. Bossidy is President and Chief Executive Officer of Patripabre Capital LLC, in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and provides consulting services to companies in the financial services industry. Mr. Bossidy previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Clayton Holdings LLC from 2008 to 2014, when it was acquired by Radian Group, Inc. He also formerly served as Senior Operations Executive at Cerberus Capital Management and has held various executive appointments for General Electric Company, most recently as President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Capital Solutions Group, a diversified global commercial finance company. He is a certified public accountant. Mr. Bossidy has been designated by the Board of Directors as a financial expert under the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

David M. Brunelle

Mr. Brunelle is Co-Founder and Managing Director of North Pointe Wealth Management in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has over 20 years of experience in financial services working with businesses, individuals, families and charitable foundations. Mr. Brunelle is a former Director of Commerce Bancshares Corp. and Commerce Bank & Trust Company and served on Commerce’s audit and loan committees. He has also served as trustee or corporator for numerous non-profit entities in and around Worcester, including The Nativity School of Worcester, The Worcester Regional Research Bureau, The Worcester Educational Development Foundation, the UMass/Memorial Foundation, Becker College and the Greater Worcester Community Foundation.

Robert M. Curley

Mr. Curley is Chairman of the New York region of Berkshire Bank. He previously served as Chairman and President for Citizens Bank in New York from 2005 to 2009. Prior to joining Citizens, Mr. Curley served at Charter One Bank where he was President for New York and New England. During the period of 1976 to 1999, Mr. Curley was employed by KeyCorp, where he rose to the position of Vice Chairman of KeyBank N.A., and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of four subsidiary banks. Mr. Curley was hired by the Company and the Bank as Chairman of our New York region and appointed as a director of the Company and the Bank in December 2009.

John B. Davies

Mr. Davies is a former Executive Vice President of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance and is currently an Agent Emeritus with Massachusetts Mutual, providing high net worth counseling with a focus on tax efficiency and intergenerational transfers of wealth. Mr. Davies currently serves on the Westfield State University Foundation Board. Mr. Davies is a former director of Woronoco Bancorp.

J. Williar Dunlaevy

Mr. Dunlaevy is the former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Legacy Bancorp, Inc. and Legacy Banks (collectively, “Legacy”). Mr. Dunlaevy served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Legacy from 1996 until their merger with Berkshire in 2011. A community leader, Mr. Dunlaevy currently serves as a director of the Berkshire Bank Foundation, and previously served as Chairman of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. Mr. Dunlaevy has also been a director of the Depositors Insurance Fund, Massachusetts Bankers Association, and Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts (“SBLI”). Mr. Dunlaevy has been designated by the Board of Directors as a financial expert under the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Cornelius D. Mahoney

Mr. Mahoney is the former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Woronoco Bancorp, Inc. and Woronoco Savings Bank before their merger with Berkshire in June 2005. He is a former Chairman of America’s Community Bankers and the Massachusetts Bankers Association and a former Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston. He was a member of the Thrift Institution Advisory Council to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Westfield State College.

Richard M. Marotta

Pamela A. Massad, Esq.

Ms. Massad has been Of Counsel with Fletcher Tilton PC since April 2001. She has over 30 years of experience as a practicing attorney, concentrating her practice in the areas of banking and finance, secured lending, corporate and real estate law, and is a member of the Worcester and Massachusetts Bar Associations. Ms. Massad is a former Director of Commerce Bancshares Corp. and Commerce Bank & Trust Company and served on Commerce’s loan, compliance and compensation committees. Ms. Massad currently serves as a director of the Hanover Theatre and as a trustee of the Nativity School of Worcester. Additionally, Ms. Massad serves as a director for many well-known Massachusetts businesses including Diamond Chevrolet, Inc. and Diamond Auto Group, Pie Co. Realty, Inc. and Table Talk Pies, Inc.

Laurie Norton Moffatt

Ms. Moffatt is the Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Since 1986, Ms. Moffatt has overseen the expansion of the museum’s facilities and the creation of a scholars’ research program. Her efforts resulted in the Museum receiving the National Humanities Medal, America’s highest humanities honor. Ms. Moffatt is also an active community leader. She is a founder of 1Berkshire and Berkshire Creative Economy Council and serves as a trustee of Berkshire Health Systems and a director of Berkshire Health Systems, Inc. and Berkshire Medical Center, Inc.

Richard J. Murphy

Mr. Murphy is Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of the Tri-City ValleyCats minor league baseball team, a Class-A affiliate of the Houston Astros based in Troy, New York. He previously served as Chairman of the New York-Penn League Schedule Committee and is a current member of the Board of Directors for Minor League Baseball’s Baseball Internet Rights Corporation.

Patrick J. Sheehan

Mr. Sheehan is owner and manager of multiple healthcare businesses in New England. Through his management company, Sheehan Health Group, he has operated multiple nursing homes, an independent and assisted living community, a home care agency and a rehabilitation company. A veteran of the healthcare industry, Mr. Sheehan has been successfully rehabilitating and managing healthcare properties since 1990.

D. Jeffrey Templeton

Mr. Templeton is the owner and President of The Mosher Company, Inc., located in Chicopee, Massachusetts, a manufacturer of buffing and polishing compounds, abrasive slurries and a distributor of related grinding, polishing and lapping machinery. Mr. Templeton is a former director of Woronoco Bancorp.

Corporate Secretary

Wm. Gordon Prescott

SEVP, GENERAL COUNSEL & COPORATE SECRETARY

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